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- 3 Ways To Feel Better At Work - by Submitted on Aug 01, 2007 from Deborah Brown-Volkman, PCCHow do you feel at work? Are you tired throughout the day? Being tired and having low energy is common in the workplace. How can it not be? You’ve probably been getting up early five days or more per week for years. You probably get home late from work and go to bed late. Getting eight hours of ...
Views: 2808 - Every Career Challenge Is Tough In The Beginning - by Submitted on Apr 19, 2012 from Deborah Brown-Volkman, PCCAre you facing a challenge in your career that seems insurmountable? Are you unsure how to handle it? Do you wish that overcoming your challenge was easier? No one really wants things to be tough. Yes, we may know deep down that tough makes us stronger, but when we are going through a ...
Views: 1480 - Make A Fresh Start In The New Year - by Submitted on Dec 15, 2007 from Deborah Brown-Volkman, PCCAre you caught up in the day to day doldrums of your career? The New Year is here. This means, it’s a perfect time to complete the previous year and start fresh. If you haven’t been passionate about your career in a while, capitalize on this time of the year to begin again. If you’ve lost your ...
Views: 1394 - Don’t Expect Instant Gratification In Your Career - by Submitted on Oct 15, 2010 from Deborah Brown-Volkman, PCCWe are an instant gratification society. We are accustomed to Instant access to food, drink, and our favorite TV programs. Instant access to books, newspapers, and information. Instant access to pretty much whatever we want when we want it. Unfortunately, instant gratification does not ...
Views: 1357(1 vote) - Go In The Direction That Your Career Is Taking You - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2012 from Deborah Brown-Volkman, PCCAre you frustrated in your career? Not where you thought you would be or want to be currently? Frustration is normal is today’s economy. Who can blame anyone for being upset? One day you got up and went to work, and the next day that job was gone or the office environment was different. ...
Views: 1295 - Action Is Essential To Career Success - by Submitted on Apr 19, 2011 from Deborah Brown-Volkman, PCCAre you working on your career goals regularly or just thinking about them? Are you moving forward a little bit every day or waiting for the right time to begin? Goals don’t get realized on their own. They get completed and achieved when you are working on them. Work on your goals and you ...
Views: 1244 - Do Resumes Make You Crazy? - by Submitted on May 31, 2010 from Deborah Brown-Volkman, PCCDo Resumes Make You Crazy? What to put on a resume can be daunting, frustrating, and upsetting. Will I cover all the bases? Will my accomplishments come across? How long should my resume be? And, what format? The stress and anxiety builds inside and doesn’t subside. Resumes scare even ...
Views: 1225 - How To Really Move Forward In Your Career - by Submitted on Jan 09, 2012 from Deborah Brown-Volkman, PCCPeople come to me all the time because they are unhappy in their careers and are not sure what to do about it. They tell me the reasons they don’t have what they want; the economy, their company; some are even honest enough to blame themselves. They are all facing tough challenges, either ...
Views: 1201 - Stop Being A Victim In Your Career - by Submitted on Dec 09, 2011 from Deborah Brown-Volkman, PCCI know what it feels like to be trapped in a career. You dread going to work, but believe you have no options. You dream of greater things, but don’t know or don’t believe you can get them. You feel hopeless, powerless, and alone. What’s missing is the bigger picture of where you are headed. ...
Views: 1169 - Get Uncomfortable - by Submitted on Feb 21, 2013 from Deborah Brown-Volkman, PCCAre you happy in your career or just going through the motions? Do you know it’s time to act, but you don’t want to? Are you pushing yourself to do more, and be more, or are you too comfortable being comfortable? Making a change in your career involves work, and not everyone likes to do work. ...
Views: 1168 - How To Create A Powerful Career - by Submitted on May 13, 2007 from Deborah Brown-Volkman, PCCIf you compared you career to the Wizard of Oz, would you be at the start of the path, where the Lion lacked courage, the Tin Man had no heart, and the Scarecrow had no brain? Or, would you be Dorothy when she was moving forward to find her way back home or Dorothy in the beginning of the movie ...
Views: 1158 - Expect To Have Problems In Your Career - by Submitted on Mar 11, 2011 from Deborah Brown-Volkman, PCCExpect to have a wonderful idealist career all the time? If the answer is yes, then you are expecting too much. This is not to say that you are destined to have an unhappy career. It does mean that your career has its ups and downs and it's all part of your journey to true career ...
Views: 1139 - Career Approval Comes From You - by Submitted on Jul 13, 2011 from Deborah Brown-Volkman, PCCMost people look for approval from the outside. They want to feel good about their choices and career path. They want validation that they are doing the right things at the right time and are being understood and respected for their decisions. After all, who doesn’t want to hear the sound of ...
Views: 1134 - Get The Balance Back Into Your Career - by Submitted on Mar 15, 2012 from Deborah Brown-Volkman, PCCAre you out of balance in your career? You know you are when your career is all you think about. You worry constantly about where your career is headed. You believe that you can’t be happy until your career problems are solved. And, it might be starting to affect your health. Balance is a ...
Views: 1130 - Begin With Today - by Submitted on Jun 13, 2007 from Deborah Brown-Volkman, PCCNo matter where you are in your career, today is a brand new day. It does not matter how many jobs or gaps you have on your resume. It does not matter whether you once led a big project that failed or went nowhere. It does not matter if you tell yourself regularly that you should be somewhere ...
Views: 1114 - You Are What You Eat In Your Career - by Submitted on Apr 29, 2007 from Deborah Brown-Volkman, PCCHow do you feel today? Do you feel good with lots of energy? Or, do you feel drained and unable to get into the day? How you feel at work is directly related to what you put into your body. Had a cup of coffee with 2 spoonfuls of sugar and a donut this morning? In a few hours you will be ...
Views: 1104 - Bad Choices Can Lead To Good Ones - by Submitted on Jul 09, 2007 from Deborah Brown-Volkman, PCCYour career is a series of choices. Some are good and some are not so good. But either way, you are the person doing the choosing. At times it may feel like you have no choice, or someone else is making the choices for you, but the truth is you have more power over what you choose than you ...
Views: 1074 - Are You Making A Difference In Your Career? - by Submitted on Feb 15, 2012 from Deborah Brown-Volkman, PCCMany people I speak with tell me they want to make a difference. They want to contribute at work, do more, and make an impact in their career. But when asked if they are making that difference, the answer is usually NO. Not due to lack of want, but lack of courage, direction, or a ...
Views: 1045 - Stop Having A Frustrating Career - by Submitted on Jan 10, 2011 from Deborah Brown-Volkman, PCCAre you having a tough time in your career? Have you been laid off and are still looking for work? Are you overworked, stressed, and tired in your present position, and are unable to visualize a solution? Sometimes we believe it is the economy's sole fault that we are having such a difficult ...
Views: 1023 - Wish Upon A Star - by Submitted on Sep 05, 2007 from Deborah Brown-Volkman, PCCWhat are you wishing for in your career? More money? Recognition? Work/life balance? A new job or career? A wish is something that you long for or desire. Wishes can be big like wanting a major change in your career or small like having fewer meetings to attend. Wishes are good because they ...
Views: 994 - It Is Ok That You Are Out Of Work - by Submitted on Apr 19, 2012 from Deborah Brown-Volkman, PCCMost people are embarrassed if they are unemployed. They feel like they failed and are ashamed to talk about their current status. Or, they are back to work after a long stretch of not working, but are worried it might not last. Thus, their fears prevent them from performing as well as they ...
Views: 993 - What Do You Believe About Your Career? - by Submitted on Feb 15, 2012 from Deborah Brown-Volkman, PCCSome people talk about “belief” as this thing that only works for people who are successful. Ask these successful people what drives their success, and they’ll often mention positive thinking and affirmations. But people who struggle often attribute the success of others to “good luck” and their ...
Views: 962 - Change Your Future - by Submitted on Nov 28, 2007 from Deborah Brown-Volkman, PCCAre you focused on the past or the potential your future holds? Many people can’t let go of something that happened a long time ago. Maybe it was a conversation you had, or didn’t have. Maybe it was a project you should have taken, or one that you let pass by. Maybe it was something you said on ...
Views: 922 - Laid Off? Today Is A Brand New Day. - by Submitted on Sep 27, 2008 from Deborah Brown-Volkman, PCCA sudden job loss can be very unsettling, and it makes a person look inside in order to get perspective on their situation. I was a person that was laid off too a few years back, so I know what it is like to not have a job to go to. I feel fortunate, though, that I was building my coaching ...
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